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Definition of Sexton
1. Noun. United States poet (1928-1974).
2. Noun. An officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects.
Definition of Sexton
1. n. An under officer of a church, whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc., belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perform other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc.
Definition of Sexton
1. Noun. A church official who looks after a church and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell-ringer. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sexton
1. a maintenance worker of a church [n -S]
Medical Definition of Sexton
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An under officer of a church, whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc, belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perform other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc.
Literary usage of Sexton
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1891)
"WJ Peek, for the plaintiffs. EB Stamps, for the defendants. > MERRIMON, CJ On
the trial, it was "admitted that the defendants, AN sexton and JA sexton, ..."
2. Lost Chapters Recovered from the Early History of American Methodism by Joseph Beaumont Wakeley (1858)
"To cash paid Peter the sexton from class collections £3 10 0 This was in the
midst of the war, and he was paid from the " class collections. ..."
3. The Ecclesiastical Law by Richard Burn, Robert Philip Tyrwhitt (1824)
"Nor can the right of the sexton be tried in such case, without his being a ...
A return to a mandamus, that LC was not duly elected sexton according to the ..."
4. The Writings of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens, Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1894)
"Hollands, sir,' replied the sexton, trembling more than ever; for he had bought
it of the smugglers, and he thought that perhaps his questioner might be in ..."
5. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1864)
"On March 27, 1833, sexton & Co. entered into an agreement with Lyman Wood to sell
uim this property ; and in consideration of this agreement and of the ..."
6. Diary of the Parnell Commission by John Macdonald (1890)
"To Dr. Kenny followed Mr. sexton, MP, Lord Mayor of Dublin. Mr. sexton had no
information to give the Attorney-General about the Land League accounts and ..."
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